Hell Yeah!
I'll spill the beans and keep this fuckin' real for ya!
A 100K could buy my love for coffee in a heartbeat.
There's life after love, but there's no love without life, and money is life, not coffee!
The thing is, drinking coffee satisfies my emotions, but the world does not revolve around my feelings or my love for coffee. The world revolves around money, and not drinking coffee would not make me lose my zest for promoting coffee as the elixir of life.
I'll give an example;
When I worked as a Concierge, I recommended restaurants to clients. I did not get the chance to visit all restaurants that I had to sell, but in my position, there was no value in saying to a customer, I cannot recommend this or that restaurant because I have not been there.
Instead, I listened to the feedback of every customer who went to all the restaurants. Over time, I noticed a trend. Guests all came back and gave the same rave reviews, which were so detailed, that I could visualise the restaurants, and enthusiastically sell the restaurants to customers, by giving them an equally detail idea of what to expect.
The restaurant owner took the initiative to occasionally send a different meal from their menu, back to the hotel for me, with their driver. So I could describe every meal with fervour.
Every time a customer came back from one of the restaurants that I sold as my favourite, they'd say;
"Milly, the restaurant was just as you described it. We were blown away. It's just like walking into an art gallery, yet feeling like you walked into your living room with family greeting and serving you a meal."
Years later, I finally got the chance to visit the restaurant, and I kid you not, it was like déjà vu.
I've had hundreds of cups of coffee in my lifetime. Should I give up the beverage for 100K, it would be just a personal choice which would not steal my zeal or belief in the power of the beverage. However, with 100K at my disposal, by the time I start missing coffee, there would be a great chance that a new love would present itself.
Which is better a scarcity or an abundance mindset?
I think there's power in letting go and analysing the reasons why we hold onto things, and seeing how much of our choices are based on emotions and short-term thinking.
Picking coffee over 100K would be like being stuck in second gear. 100K would present opportunities, for me to focus on more than just an emotional love for drinking coffee.
I would stand a better chance of bettering my entire life by receiving 100K, more than by holding onto my love for drinking coffee daily, which adds up and make me more likely to lose 100K over a coffee-drinking habit.
So, peeps! If I should ever choose coffee over 100K, would you shoot me, please?
Peace!
The Goddess of Coffee for Life.
This post is a response to #STB Creative Coffee Writing Prompt that is active in Cinnamon Cup Coffee community. Check it out, and you still have time to submit an entry:)
All images belong to me. The cup of coffee was my last cup of Jamaican Blue Mountain Coffee, which I drank before leaving for the airport last February:)